Court rules celebrity threesome story ban can be lifted - but not yet

An injunction barring The Sun on Sunday from naming a celebrity said to have engaged in "extramarital activities" should be lifted, three Court of Appeal judges have ruled.

But they say the ban on publication will remain in place to give the man time to make an application to the Supreme Court - the highest in the UK.

Editors of the tabloid newspaper want to publish an ''account'' of the man's ''sexual exploits'' with others.

The man took legal action and earlier this year two Court of Appeal judges imposed an injunction - preventing the newspaper from identifying the man in an article.

Three appeal court judges said on Monday that the injunction should be lifted - following a challenge by lawyers for News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun On Sunday - at a Court of Appeal hearing in London.